Kosovo Speaker Spurns Reform of MPs' Immunity

balkan insight
14 JUL 2011 / 12:46

Jakup Krasniqi is accused of 'protecting his friends' after rejecting a EULEX request to pass a bill clarifying the lifting of immunity of MPs under investigation.

Petrit Collaku Pristina

Last week, the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX asked the speaker of parliament, Jakup Krasniqi, to clarify the issue of the immunity from arrest of MPs who are under investigation.

In theory, if 61 of the 120 MPs vote to do so, parliament can lift an MP's immunity, acting on the advice from the public prosecutor. In pratice, it has never happened....more...
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